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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By: Deborah Moggach
Narrated by: Juliet Mills
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When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins England

Critic Reviews

“[Deborah] Moggach has served us a treat with this novel. Moving, sincere, funny.”—Independent on Sunday

“Underneath the ironies, [The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel] is a book about remembering—too late, or not too late—how to be alive.”—The Times Literary Supplement

“Classic Moggach: funny, touching, and . . . full of colours and visual details.”—The Daily Telegraph

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